Study Notes CCP

Question 1

What are the aspects of a server OR what is a server composed of (there are 5)

Answer 1

Compute, Memory, Storage, Database, Network

Question 2

What is a network?

Answer 2

Cables, routers, and servers connected with each other

Question 3

What is a router?

Answer 3

A network device that forwards data packets between computer networks. They know where to send your packets on the internet.

Question 4

What is a switch?

Answer 4

Takes a packet and sends it to the correct server/client on the network

Question 5

What is cloud computing?

Answer 5

It is the on-demand delivery of compute power, database storage, applications, and other IT resources

Question 6

What are the 3 basic things you pay for with AWS

Answer 6

Compute, Storage, Data Transfer OUT of cloude

Question 7

What are the types of cloud computing (only 3 listed in course)

Answer 7

IaaS, Saas, Paas

Question 8

What are the things you have to manage with an On-Premise solution. (9 listed in course)

Answer 8

Applications, Data, Runtime, Middleware, OS, Virtualization, Servers, Storage, Networking

Question 9

What are the things you have to manage with an IaaS solution? (5 listed out of the 9 for On-Premise)

Answer 9

Applications, Data, Runtime, Middleware, OS

Question 10

What are the things you have to manage with a PaaS solution? (2 listed out of the 9 for On-Premise)

Answer 10

Applications, Data

Question 11

What are the things you have to manage with a SaaS solution? (0 listed out of the 9 for On-Premise)

Answer 11

Nothing.

Question 12

What is the AWS product that provides IaaS?

Answer 12

Amazon EC2

Question 13

What is the AWS product that provides PaaS?

Answer 13

Elastic Beanstalk

Question 14

What are examples of SaaS?

Answer 14

Multiple AWS services (ex: Recognition for Machine learning), Google Apps (ex: Gmail), Zoom, Dropbox.

Question 15

What are the components of AWS Global Infrastructure? (There are 4 commonly listed)

Answer 15

Regions, Availability Zones, Edge Locations, Regional Edge Caches

Note( A point of presence is an Edge Location or Regional Edge Caches. An AZ is comprised of multiple nearby Datacenters)

Question 16

What is the range of how many AZs a Region can have?

Answer 16

2 to 6

Question 17

What is the AWS DNS service called?

Answer 17

Route 53

Question 18

What is the AWS CDN called?

Answer 18

CloudFront

Question 19

What is the AWS product that provides FaaS?

Answer 19

Lamda

Question 20

What is the AWS product that provides SaaS?

Answer 20

Rekognition

Question 21

You ONLY want to manage Applications and Data. What type of Cloud Computing model should you use?

Answer 21

PaaS

Question 22

What is the pricing model of Cloud Computing?

Answer 22

Pay as you go

Question 23

What Global Infrastructure identity is composed of one or more discrete data centers with redundant power, networking, and connectivity, and are used to deploy infrastructure?

Answer 23

Availability Zones

Question 24

What are the 5 characteristics of CloudComputing?

Answer 24

Rapid elasticity and scalability
On-demand self-service
broad network access
multi-tenancy and resource pooling
measured service

Question 25

What are the 4 points of consideration when choosing an AWS Region?

Answer 25

Compliance with data governance and legal requirements
Proximity to customers
Available services and features
Pricing

Question 26

AWSRegions are composed of?

Answer 26

Two or more AZs.

Question 27

List 4 AWS global services

Answer 27

IAM, CloudFront, Route53, WAF

Question 28

What defines the distribution of responsibilities for security in the AWS Cloud?

Answer 28

The Shared Responsibility Model